We bought a fixer upper house, victorian, it is a good deal in terms of value for money but I am not happy with it. And it is not because of the "new things" or new neighborhood. A great location is probably the only good thing about the house. May be also its size. We bought it because of its location and potential value. Location is superb with a huge beautiful park and numerous nice streets with shops and pubs.
But there are 2 really bad things about our house, which are an extremely bad condition and a lack of garden. In fact there is a huge garden in the back of our house but it belongs in leasehold to the neighbors' property who do not want to sell even a small portion of it even for a very good money. The old lady who leaves in the neighbors house was looking after it for over 50 years. She loves it and does not want to hear about a sale. I understand that we got what we got but it is very annoying that they have double garden (their garden+ours) and we have none.
The second thing is a condition, our house was not repaired for over 60 years, may be even longer. Literally everything has to go. Roof, windows, all electrics, plumbing, numerous horrible cubboards in everyroom, 60 yo carpets, heating is in the wrong place, radiators are horrible, kitchen and bathrooms are like in a horror movie. plus everything is in the wrong position, some rooms are derelict. To make things worse it is in a very strict conservation area where you need to apply for authorities permissions to do the repairs.
basically we believe "one day" our house will be a fantastic property when we repair everything and when one day new neighbour would probably sell us our portion of the garden back. But meanwhile we live in an expection of "one day nice life" repairing things bit by bit, we have builders 6 days a week at home, lots of skips of rubbish but there is no end of it. We changed a bath,sink and a toilet in one bathroom, got new kitchen appliences but kitchen is tiny (the old owner had a kitchen in the smallest room in the house). It is annoying living in that house, no nice dinners, unpleasant to go to the bathroom, clothes everywhere..
We cannot give it up now. I feel like I regret that we bought it, for the same money we could have got something different, may be much smaller but with a garden and ok condition...
So it is NOT just about location...
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henrietta1199 · 23/06/2017 11:57
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